First Person Fiction

Behind the Mountains

Celiane Esperance and her family escape a politically unstable and impoverished Haiti, where street shootings and pipe bombs are becoming more and more frequent. After years of separation, Celiane, her brother, Moy, and their mother all join Papa in Brooklyn, New York. The harsh concrete landscape of New York is a shock to Celiane, whose story is a passionate journey into a new land, sometimes tender, sometimes painful, but always infused with author Edwidge Danticat's signature narrative grace.First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. In Behind the Mountains Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Celiane and her family's struggles in Haiti and New York.